Earl Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb

BornJuly 14, 1948 · Newark, NJ, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1970

Final gameSeptember 25, 1977

Seasons8 (1970–1977)

Atlanta Braves 1970–1972; Baltimore Orioles 1973–1974; Atlanta Braves 1975–1976; Montreal Expos 1976; Oakland Athletics 1977

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

132

3.5

536

8.8

459

4.4

15.8

109

5.3

22.8

9.6

73.7

RBI

68.4

107

11.4

66.7

.237

OBP

.333

SLG

.425

OPS

.758

52.6

wRC+

112.6

52.6

OPS+

115.1

wOBA

.343

sWAR

3.1

57.9

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.4

51.1

OPS+

105.8

53.8

sWAR

14.3

90.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1970	10	24	19	4	7	4	0	0	5	3	4	0	0	.368	.417	.579	.996	152.5	158.4	.428	0.2
1971	145	550	497	64	129	14	1	33	87	42	80	0	1	.260	.324	.491	.815	122.4	122.0	.365	3.8
1972	151	637	565	72	146	24	2	28	87	62	118	0	0	.258	.336	.457	.793	116.7	114.7	.360	4.4
1973	132	536	459	58	109	18	1	22	83	66	107	0	2	.237	.333	.425	.758	112.6	115.1	.343	3.1
1974	118	471	413	47	105	16	0	14	52	40	79	0	2	.254	.327	.395	.722	112.1	112.0	.334	2.5
1975	111	424	383	42	92	13	0	11	50	34	63	0	0	.240	.305	.360	.665	81.3	82.2	.313	-0.3
1976	122	415	374	35	84	13	2	17	55	33	65	0	0	.225	.286	.406	.692	86.6	91.3	.316	0.6
1977	100	374	348	39	84	13	0	13	38	18	58	2	0	.241	.288	.391	.678	81.5	84.8	.301	0.0

Career totals

889

3,431

3,058

361

756

115

138

RBI

457

298

574

.2472

OBP

.3176

SLG

.4241

OPS

.7417

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1971-08-12	HOU @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	4	0	10
1972-06-30	ATL @ HOU Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1971-04-17	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	2	0	10
1971-06-13	ATL @ HOU Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	6	2	9
1973-09-03	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.